The Trump administration is reportedly closing a controversial immigration jail in Texas where three detainees died and a measles outbreak has forced more than a dozen others into quarantine.
Plans are advancing for the shuttering of Camp East Montana, part of the Fort Bliss army base, less than eight months after it opened, the Washington Post said on Wednesday.
The newspaper said it obtained an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo with plans to terminate a $1.2bn contract awarded to a private company called Acquisition Logistics LLC last year to run the jail for undocumented immigrants on behalf of the federal government.
The memo did [not] give a reason or timeline for the decision, but Camp East Montana – a sprawling, tented facility similar to a number of large camps hastily set up by, or for, ICE nationwide to accommodate Donald Trump’s surge in immigration arrests – has repeatedly been criticized for harsh living conditions and often violent treatment by guards of those housed there.
Come on, folks. Any first-year editor would have noticed the lack of a "not" that I had to insert. Context makes the wording make no sense otherwise.
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